Sentences with phrase «into international climate negotiations»

«A Proposal to Integrate Price Mechanisms into International Climate Negotiations,» Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, vol.

Richard was an organizer and signatory of the 2007 Bali Climate Declaration by Scientists, an effort by climate scientists to inject quantitative scientific substance into international climate negotiations.

Not exact matches

When Boston - based Oxfam America began addressing climate issues, «they had no one with climate change or policy experience, and found me,» recalls Coleman, who was eager to move into international negotiations.

He can lead climate policy development by using existing authority and can ensure that the U.S. has a strong position going into the next round of international climate negotiations.

Events like LACCF are important venues not just for inspiring greater climate action but at which to express views that can make their way into international negotiations.

Bottom Line: CDR can play an important and beneficial role in international climate negotiations, and it would be great to see negotiators start to incorporate CDR into the dialogues in Lima and beyond.

Still, it was a key component of his acceptance piece, and whether or not the US throws itself into international climate change negotiations with renewed vigour, or contemplates a domestic carbon price, his success is certainly good news for the clean energy industry.

Hansen, noted for his outspokenness on the topic of climate change and his willingness to venture into an advocacy role that many other climate scientists try to avoid, has previously voiced his concern about the 2 - degree warming benchmark, saying in 2011 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) that, «the target that has been talked about in international negotiations for 2 degrees of warming is actually a prescription for long - term disaster.»

Scientists can predict regional climate - change risks much more reliably than they could 20 years ago, for instance, and those predictions are being incorporated into the international scientific assessments that inform United Nations climate - change negotiations.

The United States is not only responsible for the current crisis because, as President Obama noted, it is the second highest emitter of ghg in the world behind China, it has historically emitted much more ghgs into the atmosphere than any other country including China, it is currently near the top of all nations in per capita ghg emissions, and the US has been responsible more than any other developed nation for the failure of the international community to adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction targets from the beginning of international climate negotiations in 1990 until the Obama administration.

The US was once again reluctant to join this effort for a new climate treaty [check out this video], but finally it gave into the international pressure during the last hours of negotiations.

Incorporating such considerations into international negotiations on climate change is not fanciful or unrealistic.

For this reason C&C holds the best chance of being accepted by the international community compared to other equity frameworks provided other issues that raise legitimate equity concerns including historical emissions levels are taken into account in some way in climate negotiations.

Sébastien Duyck, Senior Attorney, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), said: Unabated by the political posturing of the US government, the climate negotiations continued to progress in Bonn towards the development of practical guidelines to assist governments in translating the Paris Agreement into concrete action.

In announcing the State Department's decision to reject the permit application for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, President Obama focused on how this decision fits into the broader context of international negotiations on climate change.